Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 17:30:28 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Wim Heirman <wim@heirman.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: perf-stat per thread results
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* Wim Heirman <wim@heirman.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using perf-stat to look at hardware performance counters for a
> parallel program. Is there a way to get counter values for each thread
> individually, rather than aggregated for the whole process? [...]

Not at the moment, but it would be a useful feature.

> [...] I know I can attach to a specific thread using --tid=, but due to the 
> time required to find the tid and attach/detach this isn't accurate for 
> short-running programs. Or, alternatively, can I use perf record --stat and 
> get an exact count for each performance counter?

Yes perf record --stat should work. 'perf report -T --stdio' is supposed to 
print this, but it has regressed i think.

Arnaldo, any ideas?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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